Through its selective invitations, Medium built kind of an aura. It’s also the platform of choice for several established writers, including the new longform journalism venture Epic.

Medium recently announced the new change in a post where it said, “Anyone with a Medium account and a verified email address can post. Once your email is verified, you’ll see a button on the Medium homepage that says ‘Request writing access’. Click that button and start writing.”

A Medium account is basically the same as a Twitter account, so make sure you sign up at Twitter first. You will also need to be using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari to use Medium.

At the moment, Medium does not work on mobile phones, although The Next Web quoted the company as saying, “We are working on this.”